3 Responses to Autism Dad: Refrigerator Mothers? Thought we were over this!

Are you kidding! The cold mother is to blame again! When my oldest was 2 we saw a psychologist to try and figure out what the heck was wrong with him. Without even seeing him, he told my husband and I that he had an attachment disorder because I didn’t take good enough care of him when he was sick, which was all the time. I was devastated. He had us come to group therapy sessions to try and get him to attach. It took him about 30 seconds to realize that this kid and I were joined at the hip and if anything, Marc was overly attached to me. I was So mad. Here I was, an RN, who was spending 100% of my time trying to figure out my sick, unusual child and he gave a false diagnosis without seeing him. And basically blamed me for not taking care of him. I vote we burn this movie. It took 10 years to get someone to diagnose him with Asperger’s. So frustrating.